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  • A Talisman in the Darkness

    by Mary Berg, Melanie Nicholson, Olga Orozco ...
    Orozco’s stories portray, in impressionistic, and dreamy language, a childhood spent in a small town on the Argentine pampa. “This is a gem of a collection of Olga Orozco stories, beautifully rendered into English. This wise selection of stories reveals Orozco's lyrical as well as mysterious prose. The translators provide an excellent introduction to Orozco's haunting and illuminating saga of ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Participatory Grantmaking in Philanthropy

    How Democratizing Decision-Making Shifts Power to Communities

    by Jasmine McGinnis Johnson, David Suárez, Kelly Husted, Emily Finchum-Mason, Mirenda Megheilli, Elizabeth Barajas-Roman, Elizabeth Dale0, Anne Katahira1, Jen Bokoff2, Melanie Kawano-Chiu3, Karla Nicholson4, Julia Dundorf5, Bart Westdijk6, Sarah Huang7, William Schambra8, Michael Hartmann9, Terry Odendahl0, Laura Garcia1, Stephanie Boddie2, Tracy Rone3, Marissa Jackson4, Katie Carter5 ...
    Series series Georgetown Studies in Philanthropy, Nonprofits, and Nongovernmental Organizations
    A new community-based framework assessing the impact of participatory grantmaking on philanthropyInstitutional foundations are influential, yet it can be difficult to understand how they operate. How do their staff members make decisions? What impact do these decisions have on nonprofits, civil society, and democracy more broadly? One practice that holds promise for demystifying this relationship ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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    by Silvia Moreno-Garcia ...
    The Mayan god of death sends a young woman on a harrowing, life-changing journey in this dark, one-of-a-kind fairy tale inspired by Mexican folklore.“A spellbinding fairy tale rooted in Mexican mythology . . . Gods of Jade and Shadow is a magical fairy tale about identity, freedom, and love, and it's like nothing you've read before.”—BustleNEBULA AWARD FINALIST • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE ... Read more

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  • Prioritizing Academic Programs and Services

    Reallocating Resources to Achieve Strategic Balance, Revised and Updated

    by Robert C. Dickeson ...
    Prioritizing Academic Programs and ServicesREVISED AND UPDATEDIncreasing economic concerns make the new edition of this best-selling classic an invaluable resource for those who want and need to implement a proven step-by-step approach to reallocating resources in tough times. Thoroughly revised and updated, Prioritizing Academic Programs and Services includes new recommendations from the field, ... Read more

    $42.00 USD

  • The Service State: Rhetoric, Reality and Promise

    Rhetoric, Reality and Promise

    by Patrice Dutil, Cosmo Howard, John Langford, Jeffrey Roy ...
    Series series Governance Series
    In the past ten years, Canadians have witnessed a renaissance in the delivery of government services. New service organizations are cropping up across the country and accomplishing extraordinary things. Efforts are being made to consult citizens on how to improve and integrate services. Considerable resources are being invested in measuring and showcasing performance improvement.This book probes ... Read more

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  • Perla

    by Carolina De Robertis ...
    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    A coming-of-age story, based on a recent shocking chapter of Argentine history, about a young woman who makes a devastating discovery about her origins with the help of an enigmatic houseguest.Perla Correa grew up a privileged only child in Buenos Aires, with a cold, polished mother and a straitlaced naval officer father, whose profession she learned early on not to disclose in a country still ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Public Policy Primer

    Managing the Policy Process

    by Xun Wu, Michael Howlett, Scott A. Fritzen, M Ramesh ...
    Series series Routledge Textbooks in Policy Studies
    Fully revised for a second edition, this essential guide provides a concise and accessible overview of the public policy process: agenda-setting, policy formulation, decision-making, implementation, and evaluation.The book provides an introduction to the key policy functions, the challenges they entail, and how the challenges may be addressed by policy actors. Written from a comparative ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • On Mexican Time

    A New Life in San Miguel

    by Tony Cohan ...
    An American writer and his wife find a new home—and a new lease on life—in the charming sixteenth-century hill town of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.When Los Angeles novelist Tony Cohan and his artist wife, Masako, visited central Mexico one winter they fell under the spell of a place where the pace of life is leisurely, the cobblestone streets and sun-splashed plazas are enchanting, and the ... Read more

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  • Making Public Organizations Work

    by Bert George ...
    Public organizations matter, now more than ever. Be it hospitals providing us healthcare, schools offering us education, police officers keeping our streets safe, museums safeguarding our cultural heritage, one can provide multiple examples of how public organizations impact our daily lives. But running public organizations is complex and expectations towards these organizations have never been ... Read more

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  • I Was Carlos Castaneda

    The Afterlife Dialogues

    by Martin Goodman ...
    “A marvelous book with rich teachings that particularly touch the heart of death -- and, thus, life itself.”--Thom Hartmann, author of The Last Hours of Ancient SunlightCarlos Castaneda comes back from the dead in a true-life spiritual adventure story set in the French Pyrenees, Machu Picchu, the Peruvian Amazon, and the American Southwest.Four months after his death, the world-renowned writer, ... Read more

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  • Achieving Student Success

    Effective Student Services in Canadian Higher Education

    by Donna Hardy Cox, C. Strange ...
    This incisive and luminescent story, scrupulously grounded in sixteenth-century sources, illuminates the power that "naming" has to create a world - in this case a world still haunted by being the accidental Indies. It is a book about how we perceive and represent the world around us, about the creative and destructive power of language. Through its elaboration of the rich and lively ironies of ... Read more

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  • The Road to Santiago

    by Kathryn Harrison ...
    Series series Directions
    Displaying her "real talent for conjuring far-flung times and places," Kathryn Harrison tells the mesmerizing story of her 200-mile pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. In the spring of 1999, Kathryn Harrison set out to walk the centuries-old pilgrim route to Santiago de Compostela. "Not a vacation, " she calls it, "but a time out of time." With a heavy pack, no hotel reservations, and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD